Next assignment – blame the GOP for not providing enough funding to keep this from happening. Yes, that’s satire. But seriously, is there anyone out there who really believes that this won’t happen? It’s just how the mainstream media works. Unless you rely solely on the mainstream media or low information news outlets (The Daily [...]
We often hear conservatives speak of the poverty trap created by the myriad of regulations surrounding assistance to the poor. Here is a perfect – and tragic – example of such a trap. I was tipped off to this particularly outrageous bit of government rulemaking by an article at the Patheos blog: “Medicaid Burn: Spend [...]
During the past week, we’ve received a bolus dose of fear-mongering from big government establishment types who are scared to death that they suddenly might have to deal with smaller budget increases than they were expecting. The automatic spending reductions that went into effect at midnight total around $85 billion for the 2013-2014 fiscal year. [...]
But don’t worry – your family will be able to buy health insurance through a government exchange for a mere $20,000 a year! As much as I would like to call this fiction, it isn’t. The Affordable Care Act health insurance mandate and penalty regulations are confusing and ridiculous. An employer must offer each employee [...]
Right now I’m thinking that the Obama White House wishes it had a Ministry of Truth as effective as Oceania’s. My fellow blogger Warner Todd Huston has already covered President Obama’s puzzling skeet comment (“… up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time”) in some detail. In his post, Huston noted that [...]
A number of people enjoyed poking fun at the ‘coke bottle’ glasses that Hillary Clinton wore during last Tuesday’s congressional testimony about the Benghazi debacle. Many (myself included) speculated that her specs were merely a prop used to make her look smart or perhaps a little bit vulnerable – “you nasty Republicans wouldn’t hit a [...]
If you haven’t been following the headlines, Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. is headed “over the cliff,” today, with respect to its decision to defy the Obamacare mandate covering birth control and “morning after” contraceptives. Here’s what makes the story interesting. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is a privately owned company, founded and operated by David Green. [...]
My previous post dealt with two “surprise” taxes buried in the new Affordable Care Act regulations. And for the past year, observers have been listing the plethora of new taxes scheduled to take affect in 2013, fiscal cliff or no fiscal cliff. But that isn’t the whole story. Far from it, in fact. All that [...]
While everyone has been busy worrying about the “fiscal cliff,” a number of other regulatory and tax changes have gone by relatively unnoticed. Two of these involve the massive new Affordable Care Act regulations, which largely go into force on January 1, 2013. The first is a $25 billion tax that will be added to [...]
“President Obama to push assault weapons ban in second term” – headline, The Hill (today). Not exactly a surprise, as President Obama has a clear record (particularly as an Illinois legislator) supporting extreme gun control measures including a ban on the manufacturing, sales, and possession of handguns, and a ban on the sale or transfer [...]
As our Lady Liberty reported yesterday, General Petraeus’ alleged mistress, Paula Broadwell, told an audience last month that the American CIA was using the Benghazi annex of the US Consulate to detain al-Qaeda prisoners from Libya as well as from other areas in Africa. The CIA has denied these claims of course, but Fox News [...]
In no particular order, here are my thoughts and reactions from tonight’s election. First off though, I must admit that as closely as our current economy and national mood paralleled 1976 – 1980, I expected a Romney victory. Throw in the shellacking that Democrats took in 2010, and we should have seen a clear Republican [...]
Here is “Sing For Change,” Barack Obama propaganda video from 2008, featuring a heart-warming, inspirational performance by the children of a bunch of Hollywood liberals: Fast-forward to 2012. Here is “I’m Blaming You,” in which a group of children vow to hold their parents responsible if they destroy America by electing Mitt Romney: Unbelievable. After [...]
… to President Obama’s Nobel laureate legacy. Sadly, as I have been watching events and information unfold this week, that is the only conclusion I can draw. How dangerous was it to give a Nobel Peace Prize to a man who had, at the time of acceptance (itself an act of supreme arrogance and hubris) [...]
I have several friends who hold liberal beliefs and vote Democratic because they long to see “justice.” They were overjoyed by the election of Barack Obama, because finally we would have a President (aided by a Democrat super-majority in Congress) who “gets it.” They believed that the upper middle and upper classes had unfairly fattened [...]
Un. Freaking. Believable: The killings of the US ambassador to Libya and three of his staff were likely to have been the result of a serious and continuing security breach, The Independent can reveal. American officials believe the attack was planned, but Chris Stevens had been back in the country only a short while and [...]
Courtesy of a Facebook friend, here is Crossroads Generation’s new ad: “The Poster” “College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.” – Paul Ryan
So wrote Saul D. Alinsky in his landmark (and final) work, Rules for Radicals. During Tuesday night’s mainstream media coverage of the Republican National Convention, the “impartial” veneer of the Leftist/Democrat/Media complex completely disappeared, giving viewers a rare insight into the crude, bigoted, and insensitive nature of their behind-closed-doors attitudes about minorities who are part [...]
Watching the Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan campaign this past week has been almost a surreal experience. Imagine – two passionate, articulate Republicans taking the fight directly to their opponents and demolishing the Democrats’ emotion-laced memes with simple, direct arguments. The last time we saw anything like this was 1980, and George H. W. Bush was [...]
Now that Mitt Romney has selected Paul Ryan as his running mate, it’s time for the real election fun to begin. The intent behind Romney’s choice seems clear enough – he is taking the fight to Obama and will challenge both his methodology for governing and the results of his policies. Paul Ryan is an [...]
Just for fun, I’ve been reading old blog posts from 2008 trying to gain a better understanding of President Obama. (Okay, I’m also looking for ways to measure just how spectacularly his presidency has failed to live up to his promises. And believe me, it’s a target-rich environment.) A couple of incidents stand out, though, [...]
As I watched the Chick-Fil-A controversy unfold during the past week or so, I was struck with how similar it was to the Tea Party uproar a couple of years ago. To understand middle America’s support for Chick-Fil-A is to understand middle America’s support for the Tea Party, and vice versa. Unfortunately progressives have proven [...]
I was surprised that none of WizBang’s other resident skirt chasers had posted this story, so here goes: Porn star Jenna Jameson chose a familiar stage to make her endorsement for the 2012 presidential election Thursday night. At a San Francisco strip club, the former adult actress and stage performer said she was ready for [...]
As always, Elizabeth Scalia (aka The Anchoress) has thoughts worth reading on the Chick-Fil-A scandal: “If You’re Not Sure, This Is How Fascism Works.” Her argument is multi-faceted, but mainly focuses on a subject I covered here a few days ago, which is that Chick-Fil-A president Don Cathy never mentioned “gays” or “gay marriage” during [...]
According to The Godfather, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chick-fil-A doesn’t represent Chicago Values. But look who apparently does: “Rahm welcomes help from Farrakahn, ignores antisemitic remarks” Ignoring Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s history of anti-Semitic remarks, Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday welcomed the army of men dispatched to the streets by Farrakhan to stop [...]
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